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    Searching inside videos has got to be coming; YouTube already auto-generates subtitles so it's a trivial thing to do.

    My impression is that nothing pays but video. Forums never paid, even back in the late 90s when I ran a fairly large gaming forum, the impressions weren't worth anything compared to those on articles, even news blurbs. That's why I said the GN and LTT sites existed because the owners wanted them to exist, not to generate revenue. They'll likely never do that in any direct sense, even if you count directing people to the YouTube video in that.

    I was an Anandtech forums-goer largely for its deals subforum. When they started banning everybody, what they called "Banandtech", that group of people went to a new site called Fatwallet.com. Fatwallet was great, the best deals site on the internet, IMO. Anyway it lasted from like 2000ish to 2017 when it went under too after being sold 2-3 times to various owners who didn't know what to do with it, trying various scams like vouchers and rebates and percentages back that I (and I suspect many) ignored. So that ended that; I think most of them went to Slickdeals.net.
     
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    @Nevarre I did not know about Paul's Hardware, I will have to take a look. PCPer I always forget about and I'm not sure why, but with so few choices left I will have to revisit them!

    Tom's Hardware has been much more of my rotation lately, could just be me but seems like their quality of their hardware reviews has improved the past few years.
     
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    continuum said:
    @Nevarre I did not know about Paul's Hardware, I will have to take a look. PCPer I always forget about and I'm not sure why, but with so few choices left I will have to revisit them!

    Tom's Hardware has been much more of my rotation lately, could just be me but seems like their quality of their hardware reviews has improved the past few years.
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    The PCPer guys are generally smart and amiable, but there have definitely been times in the last year or two where they could just not get nVidia or Intel or whomever to sample them the same parts as other publications/channels so they had to review what they could and often couldn't get it out on embargo day. That doesn't mean that those reviews are bad in any way, but if there's any last shred of published content that pays, it's day-one reviews.
     
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    Sad to see Anandtech get shut down, even though I haven't been a regular visitor for many years now.

    rodalpho said:
    Searching inside videos has got to be coming; YouTube already auto-generates subtitles so it's a trivial thing to do.
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    Those auto-generated subtitles are frequently garbage quality though, especially for videos with lots of technical terms.
     
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    AndrewZ said:
    Anandtech was really good in its heyday. I for one cannot stand the serial nature of video blogs/forums. Although I do go there occasionally. Some are very well done. Tomshardware is still kickin it. They are work a weekly browser.
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    Gamers Nexus is quite good, and they are very careful about including chapter marks so you can skip to exactly the stuff that interests you. I think they might be the best technical Youtube channel going at the moment.

    It's still slower than text, but they go to great lengths to make video as non-irritating as possible. And the presenter is pretty funny, in a low-key way. The extra time isn't wholly wasted.
     
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    Nevarre said:
    They're not alone but it's getting thinner. For video that isn't just rehashing of tech news, GN is probably the best, Hardware Unboxed is very solid. Jay is in the mix somewhere although he's made a niche as a watercooling enthusiast and that niche is in trouble right now. MLID exists, but his stuff is long and rambly and nobody knows how much of what he's saying is BS and what is industry leaks. There are others that lean a little more towards news aggregator/pundit than reviewer, but I think Paul's Hardware straddles that line well. He's not strictly rehashing news. If you want rehashed news and not much else, that exists too-- Gamer'sMeld comes to mind.

    In written media, PC World is still kicking with a few luminaries still there (I think Gordon Mah Ung is back to some level of participation after cancer treatment) and PC Perspective is still around and of course Ars Technica doesn't just do car reviews. Tom's Hardware still exists. There are more for both types of media, but the generalist sites start to get thin, and you start finding more niche content where 15-20 years ago there was meaningful competition and more smart people trying to figure out how to do better reviews instead of trying to figure out how to make payroll...
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    Sadly, Gordon Mah Ung died this weekend.

    https://www.pcworld.com/article/2564783/gordon-mah-ung-remembered.html
    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6hDR2UskM
     
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